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Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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  • Veritas Rebrands Acquired CAES Space Unit as Frontgrade Technologies; Ramzi Musallam Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Rebrands Acquired CAES Space Unit as Frontgrade Technologies; Ramzi Musallam Quoted

    Veritas Capital has completed its purchase of CAES Space Systems and changed the name of the acquired business to Frontgrade Technologies to reflect its objectives of creating technology platforms that support national security and addressing engineering challenges facing clients. Mike Elias, formerly senior vice president and general manager for the space division at CAES, will […] More

  • Carahsoft's Tim Boltz on Cybersecurity Measures Educational Institutions Should Do Amid Budget Limitations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Tim Boltz on Cybersecurity Measures Educational Institutions Should Do Amid Budget Limitations

    Tim Boltz, education program executive at Carahsoft Technology, said there are several steps academic institutions should take as they work to improve their cybersecurity posture amid budget constraints and one is understanding their external footprint. “Through the employment of third-party devices that scan the internet for web service protocol solutions, agencies can see how much […] More

  • Iridium, Qualcomm to Advance Satellite Messaging Service in Smartphones; Matt Desch Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium, Qualcomm to Advance Satellite Messaging Service in Smartphones; Matt Desch Quoted

    Iridium Communications and Qualcomm Technologies have agreed to enable satellite and emergency messaging services in various smartphone brands with plans to expand the capability to personal computers, vehicles and other consumer devices. Smartphones equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Satellite, which is backed by the Iridium satellite network, will enable users to gain global coverage and transmit […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Secures Army Task Order for Additional M-LIDS Counter-Drone Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Secures Army Task Order for Additional M-LIDS Counter-Drone Systems

    Leonardo DRS will provide the U.S. Army with additional counter-unmanned aircraft systems and spares under a task order awarded through an existing indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The task order was awarded in support of the Mobile-Low, Slow, Small UAS Integrated Defeat System program of the Army’s Integrated Fires/Rapid Capabilities Office, Leonardo DRS said Thursday. M-LIDS is […] More

  • Mattermost’s Barry Duplantis on 3 Factors Agencies Should Consider to Improve Developer Productivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mattermost’s Barry Duplantis on 3 Factors Agencies Should Consider to Improve Developer Productivity

    Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies looking to eliminate collaboration and communication barriers and address information silos to help improve developer productivity should consider three factors and the first is investing in software built for developer workflows. “Since open source is easily customizable, […] More

  • DARPA, Tech Research Consortium Expand Microelectronics Program Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Tech Research Consortium Expand Microelectronics Program Collaboration

    Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have selected seven university-run research centers as part of the second iteration of the Joint University Microelectronics Program. The centers will focus on seven research themes of JUMP 2.0: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed compute; intelligent memory […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: Agencies Should Improve Cybersecurity to Counter Ransomware Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: Agencies Should Improve Cybersecurity to Counter Ransomware Threats

    Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies and organizations must assess their cybersecurity posture and initiate cyber improvements to ensure that they can withstand ransomware attacks. “With the increasing trends, officials point to the new harsh reality that ransomware is not a question of if a company will be attacked […] More

  • Sparksoft Awarded CMS Enterprise Data Lake, Master Data Management Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparksoft Awarded CMS Enterprise Data Lake, Master Data Management Support Contract

    Sparksoft will help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improve its enterprise master data management and enterprise data lake platform under a potential five-year, $45 million contract. The company said Friday it will provide services across various areas, including Agile transformation services and DevSecOps delivery; operations and maintenance; cloud services configuration, design, development and […] More

  • NOAA Seeks Proposals for Environmental Field Services Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Seeks Proposals for Environmental Field Services Contracts

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting offers as it plans to launch a full and open competition and award six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for environmental field services. The services to be provided under the IDIQ contracts will support the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services within NOAA’s National Ocean Service, according to a […] More

  • SpyCloud's Joel Bagnal: Cyber Ranges Could Help State, Local Governments Manage IoT Security Risks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpyCloud’s Joel Bagnal: Cyber Ranges Could Help State, Local Governments Manage IoT Security Risks

    Joel Bagnal, director of federal business at security company SpyCloud, said state and local government agencies should launch more cyber ranges to understand and manage the vulnerabilities of internet of things and operational technology devices, GCN reported Friday. Cyber ranges use realistic exercises and hands-on cybersecurity laboratories to train cyber professionals. Bagnal said a cyber […] More

  • ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum: Agencies to Make Total Experience a Focus Area in 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum: Agencies to Make Total Experience a Focus Area in 2023

    Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said he believes that total experience will emerge as the new buzzword of 2023 as more government agencies look to provide employees and citizens with a simple and secure interface that is fast and easy to use and comes with accessible features regardless of the use case, […] More